Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. 4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted.The Fifth Amendment, however, applies only against the federal government. There will be five binding statewide ballot questions appearing on the state election ballot. Experts debate whether the Supreme Court should overturn Colorado's decision to keep Trump off the state's ballot at Harvard Law School's Rappaport Forum. A longshot legal bid in multiple US states to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 US presidential ballot has won in Colorado and Maine. Experts debate whether the Supreme Court should overturn Colorado's decision to keep Trump off the state's ballot at Harvard Law School's Rappaport Forum. Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. President Trump says he can end birthright citizenship with an executive order. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.